Compromise

For those who suggest that unrestricted access to abortion is a right, I’d offer this compromise.  (If I had any power to do so)

I would agree to increase access to abortion pre viability, to allow exception for rape, incest, and life of the mother through 8 months, and to leave government funding for PP alone.

In exchange for...

No further restrictions on the right to bear arms, national reciprocity for CCL holders, and rolling back restrictions on ammunition capacity.

Humanize

Many times people use personal stories to humanize contentious issues.

I just realized that if Feo, Dan, or virtually any DFL officeholder were my parents, I would have been most likely have been aborted.

Perhaps

Maybe if Israel would just pass some basic, common sense rocket and missile control legislation, it would stop the regular killings of innocent women and children.

Meuller

It seems as though we’re getting close to the release of the dreaded Meuller report and the circus that will accompany it.   It also seems as though we won’t be seeing any more indictments, which means that the narrative is now in trouble.

I want to put a couple of thoughts out there before the report.

1.   Even though it is apparently not illegal or against policy to release damaging information that’s not indictable, the left wants this ignored in its quest for anything that can be used.  This sort of selective rule following is becoming more commonplace on the left.

2.  All the folx who have been singing Bob’s praises and extolling his virtues, will turn on him in seconds if they don’t get what they want.  This isn’t about truth or reality, it’s about a bunch of people who want vengeance no matter what.

Unfortunately I don’t think we’ll get anything definitive enough to shut people up, which is too bad.

February

Remember back in February?  Three of the top Democrats in VA were accused of being racists and rapists, remember that?  

There was much self congratulatory talk from the left, stuff like "Democrats, holding people accountable and taking credible charges seriously. Good for you. Lead the way, by example...".  

There were a lot of people patting themselves on the back about how good and moral they were and about how the DFL was going to clean house and show everyone how pure and dedicated to the higher goals of eradicating racists and rapists in public life.    I bet they felt really good, really proud of what they'd done, like they'd had a major accomplishment.    Because, you know, putting a bunch of words out on social media is a BIG DEAL, it's an indication that you've really done something important.  Not as important and significant as walking, holding a sign, and chanting (or throwing weapons), but still it's a REALLY BIG DEAL to speak out so courageously on social media.

Well, guess what?   It's now almost April, spring is here, and so are the VA 3.   The racists and rapists are still on office, the hubbub is gone, there are new targets now, and the hope is that we'll forget.   The hope is that everyone will assume that by simply talking about something on social media, that there has been substantial change made.   That people assume that posting about something equals reality.  

The fact is that the VA 3 are representative of the DFL's history.  They fit right in.   The dirty little secret is that all the folx who talked the loudest, really didn't care enough to follow through, they don't care enough to do what they said they'd do.  

The entirety of leftist outrage culture is built on them not being willing to apply the same standards to their own that they do do themselves.

There is news that Jared Kushner might have engaged in the same sort of violation of  email security as Hillary.   I'd guess HRC had access to much higher levels of classified material, but the point remains.    The left thinks that Kushner should be punished, while HRC shouldn't.    Here's the deal, until those on the left agree that anyone who violates the security policy of official, classified emails and documents should be investigated equally thoroughly and punished appropriately I can't take your attacks on Kushner as anything but partisan.   

I can't imagine living life in a constant state of double standard, but apparently lots of folx on the left are quite comfortable there.

It’s too bad...

...that all the uproar about 32 Nigerian Christians being killed has drowned out the news about the shootings in Christchurch.  

So, now it's impeachable...

Just saw this on social media.

"Somebody give him a blow job so we can impeach him."

After all the effort to excuse Bill's sexual shenanigans (harassment), because it didn't have any bearing on his job, we finally see some honesty.

1.  As with the original sign, there is an element of tongue-in-cheek to this post.
2.  In hindsight impeaching Clinton was a mistake.
3.  Clinton wasn't impeached for getting a Lewinsky, he was impeached for lying under oath (perjury).

Even then, it's still funny how folx can contradict themselves.

It’s always good to see...

...that the American left is so willing to play along with the shooter in NZ.    Between She Guevara mocking thoughts and prayers, to the “It’s Trump’s fault.”, to those who ignore the reality that NZ has  stricter gun control laws than we do, it’s like a bunch of scavengers who can’t wait to start to feed.

Persecution

Last night in Bible study we were looking at John 16 and came to the section about persecution.    The question was asked, “Have you ever been persecuted for your faith?”, clearly in the US the answer is no.   At least not compared to what happens to Christians in Communist or Muslim countries.   At worst we probably experience some mocking, derision, or marginalization.

As I thought about this, I realized that I would expect to be mocked or derided for my faith by atheists or people of other faiths, what I didn’t realize was how much would come from folx who claim to be Christians.

I’m sure there’s something to learn in this, I’m not sure what.

Social Media posts say the darndest things.

“I love studying Hebrew because I get to learn things like the fact that “womb” comes from the same root word as “compassion” and “mercy.”

What a profound image. Mercy & compassion—formed in such an intimate part of the human body. Birthed and nurtured into the world.”

This showed up as a retweet by a pastor friend of mine.   He and I are pretty far apart on a lot of issues, as are the original tweeter and I.  

Having said that, I think this is a pretty cool bit of information.   It speaks into why Jesus was born of a woman, and toward the “traditional” role of women.  

Yet at least one of these people is vehemently in support of abortion.  The contrast of a place of compassion and mercy being rent by pain and violence just tears at my soul.   

The fact that neither of these two sees a contradiction in this bit of information and their political position is simply sad.    Unfortunately, folx like these are leading churches.    

Sad says it all.  

Black teenager wisdom

“Reparations won’t heal the black community. The return of black fathers might, though.”

Ranbinical wisdom

“If a Jewish congressman made a series of anti-Muslim statements do you suppose they would pass a resolution opposing anti-Semitism?”

NARAL should have publicized this wonder sooner

“Thank you for all you do to ensure that women and other people who get pregnant  have access to safe legal abortion.”

Can anyone please show me the scientific evidence of anyone who isn’t a woman who’s ever gotten pregnant?

I think

I think the problem is that we ask reasonable questions and, IF they answer them, it exposes holes in their arguments and hypocrisy in their positions. So, rather than answering reasonable questions directly, they opt to obfuscate and dodge, to claim they've answered what they haven't answered and hope no one notices.

Faced with engaging in adult dialog and answering questions and admitting to the holes, they are opting for not engaging in adult dialog and then blame others for not being nice 
I think the problem is that we ask reasonable questions and, IF they answer them, it exposes holes in their arguments and hypocrisy in their positions. So, rather than answering reasonable questions directly, they opt to obfuscate and dodge, to claim they've answered what they haven't answered and hope no one notices.

Faced with engaging in adult dialog and answering questions and admitting to the holes, they are opting for not engaging in adult dialog and then blame others for not being nice enough.

Given the indisputable fact that Dan doesn’t even bother to asleep the questions he’s asked, the fact that he has a history of deleting answers to questions then lying about those answers, and that this is in response to my direct answer to a question, it’s pretty rich.   

The difference between Dan and I, is that I at least try to answer questions.   

If you have questions about my position, ask them here.  If I ask questions, answer them. If you are interested only in ammunition to misrepresent my positions, then just be honest about it. 

Jussie

Smolett indicted on 16 counts, people like Dan and multiple celebrities still think he didn’t do anything.

Please,

If you’re going to publicly characterize what you think I meant, do me the courtesy of asking if you’re not clear.

David and Ilhan sitting in a tree...

What is one to do when David Duke gushes over Ilhan Omar?    They’d better keep this platonic so we don’t have to contend with any honor killings.  

Seriously, when David Duke gets this supportive, it might be a problem.  

I know the response, “You can’t blame Omar for someone who supports her.”,  which would be fine except that every time Duke says nice things about anyone in the GOP, y’all instantly jump all over them.  What’s good for the goose...

To be fluid, or not.

“It's amazing how the Left's theory of gender fluidity has directly contradicted so many of their other positions. Just one example of dozens: they said for years that sexual orientation can't be changed. Now they tell us that a gay man can become a woman and then be heterosexual.”

I distinctly remember folx in the left being quite adamant that sexual orientation was fixed and that conversation therapy didn’t work.    At some point it seems like the members of the leftist coalition are going to start fighting with each other. 

Science denial?

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who is openly lesbian, has been ousted from the board of Athlete Ally, a nonprofit that promotes LGBT inclusion in sports. Navratilova published an op-ed in the U.K. Sunday Times on February 17 in which she said it was “unfair” to allow trans women—biological males who had changed their gender identity to female—to compete athletically against biological women.
“Letting men compete as women simply if they change their name and take hormones is unfair — no matter how those athletes may throw their weight around,” the 62-year-old Navratilova wrote. “[T]he rules on trans athletes reward cheats and punish the innocent.” She added: “It’s insane and it’s cheating. I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers, but I would not be happy to compete against her.
Athlete Ally’s response was swift and certain:

Martina Navratilova’s recent comments on trans athletes are transphobic, based on a false understanding of science and data, and perpetuate dangerous myths that lead to the ongoing targeting of trans people through discriminatory laws, hateful stereotypes and disproportionate violence.

“First of all, trans women are women, period,” the organization’s statement continued. “They did not decide their gender identity any more than someone decides to be gay, or to have blue eyes. There is no evidence at all that the average trans woman is any bigger, stronger, or faster than the average cisgender woman, but there is evidence that often when athletes lower testosterone through hormone replacement therapy, performance goes down.” And that was the end of Navratilova’s eight-year stint as an outreach LGBT “ambassador” to the sports world—a strange fate for a woman who came out as gay in 1981, a time when public declarations of homosexual identity were still socially perilous, even for celebrities.
Readers need not approve of Navratilova’s lesbian lifestyle or her promotion of lesbian causes to recognize the absurdities of Athlete Ally’s assertion and the transgender ideology it is seeking to defend. There is one small problem with Athlete Ally’s declaration that “there is no evidence at all that the average trans woman is bigger, stronger, or faster than the average cisgender woman”—the mounting heap of exactly that evidence. On February 16, the day before Navratilova published her op-ed, high school juniors Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, biological males who identify as trans girls, won first and second place in the 55-meter dash at Connecticut’s open indoor track championships. Second-placer Yearwood was nearly a full quarter of a second faster than third-place finisher Chelsea Mitchell, a biological female. A video of the sprint shows a Miller and Yearwood who both look noticeably taller, bigger-boned, and fuller-muscled than their “cisgender” competitors. High school junior Selina Soule complained to the Associated Press: “We all know the outcome of the race before it even starts; it’s demoralizing.” Parents of other girls complained even louder, but to no avail. Connecticut is one of seventeen states (along with the District of Columbia) that allow transgender athletes to compete without such restrictions as actually having undergone sex-reassignment surgery or even taking female hormones that might reduce their muscle mass.
Nor were Miller and Yearwood anomalies. In 2016 another male-to-female transgender sprinter, Nattaphon Wangyot, took home all-state honors in Alaska’s girls’ track-and-field competition. In 2018, Rachel McKinnon, a transgender philosophy professor at the College of Charleston, won first place in the women’s cycling sprint 35-39 age bracket at the Union Cycliste Internationale’s Masters Track Cycling Championship. A photo of the event shows a hulky McKinnon in bicycle shorts towering over the second- and third-place winners. Transgender mixed-martial-arts fighter Fallon Fox cracked the skull of her opponent, Tamikka Brents, in a 2014 match, culminating a brief career of five wins to one loss. In 2012 trans woman Gabrielle Ludwig, 50 years old, 6’8” in height and 220 pounds in weight, joined the women’s varsity basketball team after enrolling at Santa Clara's Mission College in California. She had fought in Operation Desert Storm as a man and had been married and divorced twice before changing her birth certificate to reflect her new female identity. Ludwig’s coach predicted to the Mercury News that she would be “the most dangerous player in the state”—a not unsurprising assessment since Ludwig was about a foot taller on average than any other woman college player at the time.
Male-to-female transgender athletes are vanishingly few in number (like male-to-female trans people in general), but as the above examples indicate, when they compete, they pose a crushing existential threat to women’s sports. That is because the very existence of women’s sports is predicated, as Martina Navratilova recognized, on the now-highly politically incorrect observation that the two sexes are radically different physically. Women on average are not only smaller than the average man, but they cannot punch as hard, lift as much weight, or run as fast, owing to the enhanced bone density and muscle mass that testosterone affords (healthy young men’s testosterone is about ten times the level of women’s, and even when male-to-female trans people take testosterone-suppressing hormones, their bone and much of their muscle structure remains). No woman, for example, has ever run a four-minute mile; the first man to do so, Roger Bannister, broke that barrier in 1954. When biological males and biological females compete with each other on the playing fields, the biological females almost always lose.
Nonetheless, current ideology demands that gender identity be regarded as utterly fluid and a matter of subjective feeling, not physiology. “Trans women are women, period” is the reigning ethos. It is an ethos heavily promoted by trans people themselves, several of whom hold prominent leadership positions in LGBT organizations (a trans woman, Barnard professor Jennifer Finney Boylan, is current co-chair of GLAAD, another leading LGBT organization). One current project is to stigmatize heterosexual men—and lesbians—who refuse to date or have sexual relations with trans women. Lesbians and other progressive women who dissent are branded TERFs—“Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists.”
One of the chief instigators of Navratilova’s expulsion from Athlete Ally's board was Rachel McKinnon. In December 2018 Navratilova had tweeted: “You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women. There must be some standards, and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard.” McKinnon unleashed a barrage of Twitter invectives about Navratilova’s “transphobic” rhetoric that she redoubled after the Sunday Times op-ed. There is something ironic about a lifelong lesbian advocate being pushed out of her own movement by a biological male.
What is truly troubling, however, is the willingness of heterosexual feminists to go along with all of this. A typical sentiment is: “When those that govern sports maintain anachronistic conceptions of gender, we as society do not win and we as a society have to push back,” from Emma Tumilty of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. If women complain that trans women are beating them in track or cycling or mixed martial arts, the standard response is: Try harder next time. Vice magazine, surveying the wreckage wrought by Fallon Fox on Tamikka Brents’s body, called Brents a “sore loser” who needed to “get over it.”
On January 31 brand-new Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar sent a letter to USA Powerlifting on behalf of a transgender constituent (with a copy to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison for enforcement under state anti-discrimination laws) demanding that it quit barring biological males who identify as women from women’s events. Omar called the idea that trans women athletes have a “direct competitive advantage” over biological females a “myth” unsupported by “medical science.”
For decades feminists have castigated heterosexual men for trying to “erase” women—from history, from society, from political life. But the real erasure of women these days is coming from their fellow progressives. They are being denied their distinctive female sports, their distinctive female bodies, and, ultimately, their distinctive female identities.  
Charlotte Allen is a writer living in Washington, D.C.

If

80% of Central American women are raped on their way to the US.

This for the win.

“There is a pro-Trump cult that would defend him if he shot a random person on 5th Avenue. There is an anti-Trump cult that would attack him if he found the cure for cancer. Most Americans don’t belong to either of these groups, but the political coverage is dominated by them.
There are obvious short-term benefits to pundits and publications trying to appeal to one of those cults, but there are also long-term consequences. Defining yourself strictly by your views on Trump will inevitably lead to a huge credibility gap post-Trump.“

“A lot of people on both sides have completely redefined their politics, ideology, and principles to center it all around Trump — whether in support or opposition. What are these people going to do when he leaves office? Evaporate?

Of course, I know what they’re really going to do. They’re going to try and reclaim some semblance of an individual identity again, some vestige of principles and unique opinion, and hope the rest of us will just forget the last few years ever happened.“

“My cousin was Philando Castile. Stop using him to justify BLM. Black lives don’t matter to you when we get aborted and they don’t mater to you when we shoot our own people in the streets. Expanding the government means more police killings. Y’all actually love it when we die huh?”

Morgan Chambers 

Apparently

It appears that I’ll soon be banned from Dan’s blog for being “too vague”,  yet there are no specific examples and the evidence is disappearing.  

FYI, this is a thread where I fundamentally agree.

This is but one more example of the tolerant, accepting, left silencing voices who don’t sufficiently toe the line.

 Unfortunately, this means that it is likely that I will do more of something that I’m not comfortable doing. It means that there will be posts here which are direct responses to topics from Dan’s blog. I will try to keep it to a minimum, as I don’t want this to be, and orifice of eternal vitriol, but it’s pretty much my only option.

Fear makes people do strange things.

As always, Dan will be free to comment here.

Remember when...

Remember when some folx got all proud of how the DFL was going to hold its racists and rapists in VA accountable.   How they proudly gloated about how they were going to hold their own to such high standards.  I guess that explains why the furor died down and the racists and rapists are still in office.

Yeah, they really didn’t care enough to follow through with anything.

Character

There’s an ongoing conversation about the character of the president.   I’ve saud this before, but I’ll repeat it here.

I’ll never vote for a president who’s had affairs.   If someone can’t take their wedding vows seriously, why should I believe they’ll take their oath of office seriously.

I couldn’t vote for Hillary because she has a history of lying, I couldn’t vote for Trump because he had a history of lying.

There are more reasons why I wouldn’t vote for Trump, but he failed those two and that’s enough.

I agree with a pastor who said that they hired people with good character, then trained them how to do the job.  In other words, I’ll virtually always support character over “qualifications”.

Finally, Trump is reflecting societal mores, not leading them.    He hasn’t said anything worse than any number of Hip Hop artists.  

Affairs and divorce are spectator sports, not cause for grief.

It wasn’t that long ago that we had people making excuses for a president who lied under oath.

Yes Trump is a person of bad character, that’s why I couldn’t vote for him.


We live in a society where roughly 80% of men watch porn.
Where 55% of men cheat on their wives.
Where the divorce rate for a first marriage is 41% , second is 60%, and third is 73%.
We live in what Psychology Today called the "Post Truth" era.   Where the term "my truth", is becoming commonplace.  Where postmodern relativism is a popular philosophy.
We live in a society where popular art forms either drive or reinforce most of the above.

The primary complaints about Trump are the fact that he lies too much and that he demeans women, yet it looks like the data says that he's not alone, in fact that he represents a majority in our society.  

Is Trump the problem, or is society?

It seems hard to argue that the increases in the above behavior have been influenced by a politically conservative worldview.

Unfortunately, while this question could lead to some interesting study, and discussion, it's mole likely that the anti-Trump crowd will just yell "Trump is evil." loudly, while sticking their fingers in their ears.